Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 119
“No, indeed, it is not,” Wendy replied with frightful emphasis.
Who acts: housewife, Wendy · What happens: not be, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housewife, Wendy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 is | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 is | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 11 | Wendy | Wendy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 emphasis | case |
| 14 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 emphasis | amod |
| 15 | emphasis | emphasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | present | housewife | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Wendy | with frightful emphasis | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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